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Y UASH CARRIER. No. 286,501L Patented Oct. 9, 1883.

NrrED STATES lPATENT Orifice@-l EARL A. THissELL, or LOWELL, MASsAcHUsETTs, Assenon To THE DENNIS oAs-H CARRIER COMPANY, or sAME rLAoE.

GASHQCARRIER.

SPECIFICATIONAforming part of Letters Patent No. 286,504, dated October 9, 1883.

Application filed September 5, 1883. (No model.)

To all whopc it may concern.:

Be it known that I, EARL A. THIssELL, of Lowell, in the State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cash-Carriers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention has relation to the cash-carrier proper, and is directed to the means by which the coin or other article placed therein is centered and held securely.

lThe carrier in which my invention is'embodied is a twopart carrier, one of whose parts may be termed the body, and the other the cover. The instrumentality I employ for holding and centering the article placed inside the carrier is a hollow rubber ball, which I nprefer to provide with a small vent, so asl to be more readily collapsible. I prefer to employ one of these balls in each part of the carrier, the two being so placed that they will meet and be pressed together when thetwo parts of the carrier are put together. It is also preferred to employ in`one of the parts of the carrier--for instance, in the body-a disk or dished plate, which rests on or against the ball therein, and serves to hold in place the coin or other article before the two parts are put together. If desired, but one ball can be employed, this ball being placed in one of the parts-as, for instance, in the cover-while the disk or dished plate is secured in the other part.

The accompanying drawings represent the preferred embodiment of my invention.

Figure l isa longitudinal central ysection of the carrier closed and ready for use. Fig. 2 is a like section of the same open, or with its two parts separated from one another.

Fitting and secured in the cover is a hollow elastic rubber ball, C, and within the body A is secured, in like manner, a similar ball, C. To make these balls more readily collapsible, each one is yprovided with a small vent, c, which communicates with a hole, d, in the head of the cover B and body A, respectively. The two balls are of such size or are so placed that they will normally meet and be pressed together when the two parts A B are putV together.

In front of the body ball C', I prefer to place the disk or dished plate D, hereinbefore referred to, which can move back and forth in the body A, and is preferably attached to the ball C', so as to move therewith.

To use the carrier, the cover is removed and the coin or other article is placed on the disk D, the body being held open-end uppermost. The cover is then fitted in place, with the effcct of causing both balls to be pressed back or' ,collapsed equally, the coin being held tightly and firmly by the elastic pressure of the ball between the disk D and ball C, as indicated in Fig. 1, where the coin is represented at E. As hereinbefore intimated, the disk D may be dispensed with, and the coin may be held directly between the two rubber balls. On the other hand one of the balls may be dispensed with-as, for instance, the ball Gf in the body-in which case the coin would be held between the disk D and cover-ball C. In v such event the disk D either could be movable and backed by any suitable spring or elastic support, or it could be fixed in place, since the ball C would `yield to the requisite extent. I prefer, however, on the whole, the arrangement of parts illustrated in the drawings.

What I claim as new and of my own inveir/ tion is 1. The combination,with a two-part carrier,

of a collapsible elastic hollow rubber ball in rior, of the hollow elastic balls C C', substanwith Vents communicating with holes `in the 1o tially as and for the purposes hereinbefore set heads of the carrier, substantially as and for forth". the purposes hereinbefore set forth.

3. The combination, with the two-part ear- In witness whereof I have hereunto set my 5 rier, of the hollow elastic balls C C', and interhand this 25th day of August7 1883.

posed disk or plate D7 substantially as and for EARL A. THISSELL. the purposes hereinbefore set forth. Vitnesses: Y

4. The combination, with the two-part ear- A. T. ATHERTON, j rier, ofthe hollow elastic balls C C, provided C. H. ROBBINS. 

